DS3 Racing on Top Gear NOW.

Citroening · Post by **Citroening** » 03 Jul 2011, 20:15

On ATM...

stevenc75 · Post by **stevenc75** » 03 Jul 2011, 20:38

Clarkson seems to like it, but really, black and orange? It's hideous. It just screams boyracer.

Citroening · Post by **Citroening** » 03 Jul 2011, 20:42

I actually love it and would love one!

Not at £23,000 though - I can only think of the depreciation on it!

Give it about five years and I wonder what the price will be...

Deanxm · Post by **Deanxm** » 03 Jul 2011, 21:22

60p

cant be doing with orange wheels though.

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Citroenmad · Post by **Citroenmad** » 03 Jul 2011, 21:26

An excellent episode, I liked that, not sure about the 500C mind.

I like the orange on the DS3, my favorite colour and I fancy it on a car, though al all orange car is a little in your face. They have it right though, its like a trainer.

Citroening · Post by **Citroening** » 03 Jul 2011, 21:29

I think that the orange really suits it well. Admittedly a bit Tango'ish but I like cars that are different and stand out from the crowd - also part of the Citroen Quirkyness.

Deanxm · Post by **Deanxm** » 03 Jul 2011, 21:36

you two must have been on the funny juice, garish orange wheels do not make a car special or qirky, especialy if the car in question is a Saxo

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There is two of them over here now and they do look nice i must admit.
My neighbour has the Arbarth and i like that too, my mrs would look good in one

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Citroening · Post by **Citroening** » 03 Jul 2011, 21:39

Ah, so that's what this is...!

Citroenmad · Post by **Citroenmad** » 03 Jul 2011, 21:43

I wouldn't say the orange makes the car different and quirky, the car itself has to do that, not the paintwork

Im not struck on the DS3's shape and so would be down to the Mini dealer first

Citroening · Post by **Citroening** » 03 Jul 2011, 21:48

What I meant was that for it to come out of the factory with the orange bits (including the orange dash!) then that's quirky IMO - I don't know of another car in production with an orange dash!

Citroenmad wrote:Im not struck on the DS3's shape and so would be down to the Mini dealer first

...you have been on the funny juice - a Bini! No, no, no...

Citroenmad · Post by **Citroenmad** » 03 Jul 2011, 21:53

Your right, it is quite lairy for a car manufacturer to make, its a popular thing and I do see DS3s everywhere.

Yes, a Mini would be my choice for a tiny/small but relatively sporty hatch.

Deanxm · Post by **Deanxm** » 03 Jul 2011, 21:54

There was a bit of

and a whole lot of

beach2 by Deanxm, on Flickr

beach3 by Deanxm, on Flickr

I will be honest, i didnt wash the activa and i didnt take it somewhere for a photo session today, i just didnt get the time

Chris, wash your mouth out, bloody mini, grumble grumble

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Citroenmad · Post by **Citroenmad** » 03 Jul 2011, 21:58

Deanxm wrote:
I will be honest, i didnt wash the activa and i didnt take it somewhere for a photo session today, i just didnt get the time

Chris, wash your mouth out, bloody mini, grumble grumble

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Nor me, I will give it a clean and get it in front of a camera this week. Ill start the thread then

Yes, I prefer the Mini to the DS3 (I don't see any Citroen-ness in a DS£ anyway) so if I was buying a car like that then it would be a Mini, can't ever see it happening mind

Post by **CitroJim** » 03 Jul 2011, 22:01

The only bit of the DS3 I don't like is the front end. I can't get on with these gulping fish grilles at all - horrid.

On principle I'd never have a Bini. I'd have (and have had) a proper Mini but never a German intimation one...

Maybe it is because I was born the same year as the original Mini and thus have a bit of a special affinity with it that I still resent this absolute icon of Britishness being stolen from us by BMW...

An original Mini was my very first car in 1976. EPL 605B. Wonder what happened to it...

Citroenmad · Post by **Citroenmad** » 03 Jul 2011, 22:04

The Mini hatch is the only Bini I would buy, the Clubman and Countryman are really horrible, the imitation 4x4 is the worst, certainly one of the worse looking cars for sale at the moment.